“It takes two to know one.’
— Gregory Bateson
Mihyun Lee studied Korean Dance, Counseling Psychology, and Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis (LBMA). For about 30 years of practicing dance professionally shaped her understanding of the primal nature of the body and its expression.
Throughout her education, she became clear about the fundamental relationship between movement and psychology. She established her somatic movement therapy practice and psychotherapy approach called kinesiopsychotherapy based on the human movement study of LBMA. Her service is oriented towards promoting psychological wellbeing through physiological practice.
She is an Associate Marriage Family Therapist, Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, and Certified Laban Movement Analyst. She serves individuals, couples, and groups both in San Francisco and Seoul.
Move to Heal.
Mihyun has trained in dance since 1992 in South Korea. The root of her movement principles came from learning Korean Traditional Dance, Ballet, and Modern dance at Sunhwa Arts School. After achieving solid movement techniques, she studied choreography to expand her understanding of dance as creative aspects of art at Kookmin University in 2005. After she worked as a professional dancer and choreographer, she began to explore contact improvisation and improvisational forms of dance on and off stage in 2009. Through this exploration, she discovered the therapeutic aspect of improvisation. This brought her to study Expressive Arts Therapy and Somatic Psychology under the Counseling Psychology program at California Institute of Integral Studies.